Many thanks to Omair Majid for preparing the 1.12.1 release while I was still returning home from FOSDEM. Much appreciated!

The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative virtual machines.

A new security release is now available for the OpenJDK 6 series: 1.12.1. Regarding 7, we’ve hit bootstrapping issues that we’re trying to work around so it can still be built with OpenJDK 6, but if you fancy rolling your own using an earlier build of 7, the forests are already up-to-date for 2.3 as is the IcedTea7 2.3 repository.